Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

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First, please use BBCode code tags. I added them for you. You can edit your post to see how it's done.Second, make && make install is not the preferred way to do things in Arch. Are you sure there is not a package in the AUR for your card?

As a sanity check, can you post the output of lspci -nn (That is two n's, not m.)

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Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

Yeah. Um, ouch. That chipset looks like it is problematic.

I was unable to find any packages for that device. We may have to figure out how to compile that beast. I may be able to work on that a little tonight (GMT-7). In the mean time, would you be interested in having this thread moved to 'AUR Issues, discussions, and PKGBUILD requests', or should we leave it here for now?

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gcc doesn't know what "__devexit" means.this is defined in include/linux/init.h. For some strange reason, it isn't defined in "/usr/src/linux-<kernel-version>/include/linux". After symlinking "/usr/src/linux-<kernel-version>" to the full kernel source, it compiled without errors on my machine (except those obscure warnings).____UPDATE: This was wrong what I wrote. They removed the __devexit defines in 3.8. According to https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1921951/. __devexit isn't needed anymore. So, you just need to patch out all references to __devexit in the driver. Probably __devinit too.UPDATE 2: Here's a patch file to make it 3.8 compatible. No guarantees. Sorry, for posting it here directly.

Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

ewaller wrote:

Yeah. Um, ouch. That chipset looks like it is problematic.

I was unable to find any packages for that device. We may have to figure out how to compile that beast. I may be able to work on that a little tonight (GMT-7). In the mean time, would you be interested in having this thread moved to 'AUR Issues, discussions, and PKGBUILD requests', or should we leave it here for now?

Yeah, I have no problem to move it, especially if you take your time to help me(and everybody who have problems with this card). Ask me everything you need. Thanks a lot

dontbugme wrote:

Hi, the bug hunting took me some time, but your problem is relatively simple. You need the full kernel source,

gcc doesn't know what "__devexit" means.this is defined in include/linux/init.h. For some strange reason, it isn't defined in "/usr/src/linux-<kernel-version>/include/linux". After symlinking "/usr/src/linux-<kernel-version>" to the full kernel source, it compiled without errors on my machine (except those obscure warnings).____UPDATE: This was wrong what I wrote. They removed the __devexit defines in 3.8. According to https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1921951/. __devexit isn't needed anymore. So, you just need to patch out all references to __devexit in the driver. Probably __devinit too.UPDATE 2: Here's a patch file to make it 3.8 compatible. No guarantees. Sorry, for posting it here directly.

Thanks for your reply, I'll try to apply this patch. This is my fist time applying a patch. I read a little and I think it's only this instruction:

$ patch -p1 -i pkgname.patch

Where pkgname.patch is the file with text that you put above. Is the file pci_main_dev what I need to patch?

EDIT: Oh! great!! I have another different error! I read about the new error. so, I expect I can find the solution

I tried with networkmanager using kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement(KDE) and I can't select wireless tab, it appears on grey color.

I tried with wicd and it search for wireless connections, but I can't connect using WPA key(It says bad password). I searched for a solution and I uninstalled both networkmanager and kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement, but wicd doesn't connect anyway.

Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

Yes, i tried it yesterday with errors (maybe i was tired for being all The day configuring and installing this card) but today i tried to patch it again and it seems its working now i can tag this thread solved.

Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

dontbugme wrote:

Congrats. Maybe someone can make a PKGBUILD out of this? I might be doing it, am bored anyway atm.

Moving to 'AUR Issues, Discussion, and PKGBUILD requests' now.

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Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

Re: I cant install PCE-N53 Asus wireless card

No problem. Glad I could help. Although I have to admit, I don't have the time to maintain this PKGBUILD (not to mention I don't even have this card). It would be good, if there was someone to take over mainenance of the PKGBUILD. Would be unfortunate to orphan this package shortly after submitting it.